What would be the best IPS screen for x230 with least ghosting/hotspot problem and how should I carefully recognize it when looking on online listings please?
Is there a huge price gap when it comes to FHD/2k 12,5 mods? does they require nitrocaster board or some kind of modding, how much are they going for compared to standart ips screens ?

Good news! The 4th batch is in production now. Assembled PCBs are expected to be ready by September.

how much it will cost with shipping to europe, will it work with 2k mod? will it upgrade the lap to have another msata and usb 3.0 or something like that?

Prices remain the same. 2K is not supported. The kit does not provide any features other than support for 2-lane eDP displays. If you want extra USB3, get an ExpressCard adapter. BTW, do you really need another mSATA? X230 takes 2 SSDs right out of the box (2.5" + mSATA). Furthermore, 2.5" SSDs are cheaper and have more capacity.

Any idea what I may be doing wrong trying to apply this patch? I tried the original Kernel patch, this updated patch, and I tried changing the kernel version in this patch to match my 4.15.0-32 version number; no luck. I'm trying to run patch -p0 < "this patch" from root to no avail. Any advice?

Make the changelog change manually and delete that section from the patch file. Then apply the patch with -p1 from the base folder of your kernel source.

Man, I'm still a little fresh to all of this. I tried to do patch last time, and it didn't work out. I ended up having to decompress the kernel, modify it, and rebuild it. It was a nightmare. Think someone could come up with slightly more verbose instructions for this patch?

Okay, the backlight on my X230 have stopped working altogether. I don't have the aux power wire soldered and have F1 bridged over. I have a soldering iron, st-link, multimeter and a crappy digital scope. How do i find out what's wrong?

51nb X210 with community EC mod, me_cleaner and recelled 99W*h battery; X230 with coreboot, me_cleaner and nitrocaster's FHD mod as a backup; R500 for guests; T60 just for the looks.

VBL20 is responsible for the backlight power. Given that you bridged F1, either your solder bridge is blown or the copper track is blown somewhere on the motherboard. Two things to keep in mind:
1. Do not bridge fuses
2. Do not disconnect or connect anyhing inside the laptop unless the battery is removed and the AC adapter is disconnected

VBL20 is responsible for the backlight power. Given that you bridged F1, either your solder bridge is blown or the copper track is blown somewhere on the motherboard. Two things to keep in mind:
1. Do not bridge fuses

I've bridged F1 on the mod board and desoldered AUX power as you've suggested earlier in this thread. I don't think it is supposed to carry VBL20.

51nb X210 with community EC mod, me_cleaner and recelled 99W*h battery; X230 with coreboot, me_cleaner and nitrocaster's FHD mod as a backup; R500 for guests; T60 just for the looks.

Hello,
I'm interested in buying the fhd kit for my x230 laptop. Where can I obtain it easily? only one kit of screen+ adaptor.
I dont know if the Google formulary is still working and no idea how to buy in taobao.

Thank you nitrocaster for your hard work! After looking at the 1366x768 screen for years on my X230, it's a whole new machine...

Is there a patch for coreboot to allow native graphics, or graphics at all? Using a GRUB payload and it boots up with a black screen and backlight. Once Linux loads, everything is perfect.
Someone mentioned on Twitter about adding it as a config option to the coreboot build, but I can't find anything else about this.

Got impatient and looked at libgfxinit's build process. Based on the tweet I assumed it must have been a small change in the Kconfig, and sure enough, one line. Still patching i915 in linux, but some innocuous pre-init errors are now gone.
I had coreboot going with native graphics initialization at 1366x768 before the FHD mod and also had to change my config to use libgfxinit over native VGA init.

Do i get it right that you got display in both bios and linux? What's your i915 patch? Is it necessary to get the picture in linux?

Yep it's FHD from BIOS to desktop. I use GRUB as a primary payload but tested with Seabios and that works as well. The patch was not necessary to get FHD picture in linux and it booted with backlight controls working (!) but without the patch a "phantom" output still exists that messes with X in small ways (particularly with xdm). This is the patch I'm using for i915, just the same patch from OP that's newer and matches the product name of the board I have.

No, but I would call it 95% functional, certainly good enough for a daily driver.

For anyone else working with OSX, these are the settings (large format screenshots) I have been using for ~6 months with no issues on 10.13.3. I have a thread in the OS section of this forum discussing possible long-term solutions.

Hello everyone, I was just installing mod and everything went well and lcd worked until I cut corners. After that, panel was doing this https://imgur.com/cyEPIFj
Cut went through metal. I am guessing I killed pcb of panel, right? I was using snips for cutting metal. Do you recommend other tool for my next atempt when I get next lcd? I am a bit sad now because I was really excited for 1080p experience. Any other advise for cutting lcd? Thanks for mod nitrocaster btw.